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Laurent Riffard
7e3da6c4b9 pktcdvd: don't rely on bio_init() preserving bio->bi_destructor
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:05:09 +02:00
Jens Axboe
761a15e7ac pktcdvd: don't rely on bio_init() preserving bio->bi_io_vec
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:05:08 +02:00
NeilBrown
6712ecf8f6 Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io
As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete,
the 'size' argument is now redundant.  Remove it.

Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed
from bi_size.  So don't do that either.

While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe
165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3e1ac130d0 kcdrwd: remove unneeded flush_signals() call
kcdrwd() is a kernel thread, all signals are ignored.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Andrew Morton
cbc31a475a packet: fix error handling
The packet driver is assuming (reasonably) that the (undocumented)
request.errors is an errno.  But it is in fact some mysterious bitfield.  When
things go wrong we return weird positive numbers to the VFS as pointers and it
goes oops.

Thanks to William Heimbigner for reporting and diagnosis.

(It doesn't oops, but this driver still doesn't work for William)

Cc: William Heimbigner <icxcnika@mar.tar.cc>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25 13:50:55 -07:00
Gerhard Dirschl
91e4ee381d [PATCH] pktcdvd: Correctly set cmd_len field in pkt_generic_packet
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810 - a silly
copy-paste bug introduced by the latest change.

Signed-off-by: Gerhard Dirschl <gd@spherenet.de>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:14 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
2b8693c061 [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 3
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
Thomas Maier
83f3aa3dc5 [PATCH] pktcdvd: cleanup
- update documentation

- use clear_bdi_congested/set_bdi_congested functions directly instead of
  old wrappers

- removed DECLARE_BUF_AS_STRING macro

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:28 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
406c9b605c [PATCH] Fix BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1118 caused by "pktsetup dvd /dev/sr0"
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7667

This is because the packet driver tries to send down read/write BLOCK_PC
commands that don't use a bio and do not use sg lists.

The right fix is to replace all the packet_command stuff in the packet
driver by scsi_execute() which needs to be lifted from scsi code to
the block code for that.

Fix the bug for now.  It's not the full way to a generic execute block pc
infrastcuture but fixes the bug for the time being.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05 23:55:22 -08:00
Thomas Maier
32694850a9 [PATCH] pktcdvd: add sysfs and debugfs interface
Add a sysfs and debugfs interface to the pktcdvd driver.

Look into the Documentation/ABI/testing/* files in the patch for more info.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:38 -08:00
Thomas Maier
0a0fc9601d [PATCH] pktcdvd: bio write congestion using congestion_wait()
This adds a bio write queue congestion control to the pktcdvd driver with
fixed on/off marks.  It prevents that the driver consumes a unlimited
amount of write requests.

[akpm@osdl.org: sync with congestion_wait() renaming]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:38 -08:00
Thomas Maier
adb9250a07 [PATCH] pktcdvd: reusability of procfs functions
This patch makes some of the procfs functions reusable (for
coming sysfs patch e.g.):
pkt_setup_dev()
pkt_remove_dev()
...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:38 -08:00
Nigel Cunningham
7dfb71030f [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
Thomas Maier
add216608a [PATCH] pktcdvd: rename a variable for better readability
pktcdvd: Rename a variable for better readability.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:14 -07:00
Thomas Maier
7822082d4e [PATCH] pktcdvd: Replace pktcdvd strings with macro DRIVER_NAME.
pktcdvd: Replace pktcdvd strings with macro DRIVER_NAME.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:13 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
6e9a4738c9 [PATCH] completions: lockdep annotate on stack completions
All on stack DECLARE_COMPLETIONs should be replaced by:
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:24 -07:00
Jens Axboe
c00895ab2f [PATCH] Remove ->waiting member from struct request
As the comments indicates in blkdev.h, we can fold it into ->end_io_data
usage as that is really what ->waiting is. Fixup the users of
blk_end_sync_rq().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:29:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4aff5e2333 [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
8e185d8339 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate pktcdvd natural device hierarchy
The pkt_*_dev functions operate on not-this-blockdevice, and that is
sufficiently checked at setup time.  As a result there is a natural
hierarchy, which needs nesting annotations

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:39 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
96192ff1a9 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
Also fixes all drivers that set this field.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
Matthew Dobson
0eaae62aba [PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator
This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:59 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
1657f824e8 [PATCH] sem2mutex: drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
Convert to use mutex from a semaphore

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:11 -08:00
Al Viro
1312f40e11 [PATCH] regularize blk_cleanup_queue() use
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-18 18:34:20 -05:00
Peter Osterlund
9db9154657 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Only return -EROFS when appropriate
When attempting to open the device for writing, only return -EROFS if the disc
appears to be readable but not writable.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:11 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
ab863ec342 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Fix the logic in the pkt_writable_track function
Fix the pkt_writable_track() function to make it work correctly for all types
of CD/DVD discs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:10 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
3b4828047d [PATCH] pktcdvd: Remove useless printk statements
Writing the detected disc type in the kernel log is not useful during normal
use of the driver, so remove the printk statements.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:10 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
7c613d5933 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Rename functions and make their return values sane
Boolean functions should return non-zero when they mean "true", otherwise the
calling code looks weird.  (As suggested by Linus.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:10 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
cef289633a [PATCH] pktcdvd: Correctly set rq->cmd_len in pkt_generic_packet()
It looks like the code in pkt_generic_packet() worked by luck in the past, but
after commit 186d330e68 leaving rq->cmd_len
uninitialized doesn't work any more.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:10 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
7277232374 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Reduce stack usage
Reduce stack usage in the pkt_start_write() function.  Even though it's not
currently a real problem, the pages and offsets arrays can be eliminated,
which saves approximately 1000 bytes of stack space.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
948423e5cc [PATCH] pktcdvd: Don't unlock the door if the disc is in use
Unlocking the door when the disc is in use is obviously not good, because then
it's possible to eject the disc at the wrong time and cause severe disc data
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
01fd9fda2c [PATCH] pktcdvd: Allow non-writable media to be mounted
If opening for write fails, the open method should return -EROFS.  This makes
"mount" try again with a read-only mount, instead of just giving up.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
61a3493798 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Don't spam the kernel log when nothing is wrong
Change some messages that don't indicate an error so that they are only
printed when debugging is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
e1bc89bc99 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Don't waste kernel memory
Allocate memory for read-gathering at open time, when it is known just how
much memory is needed.  This avoids wasting kernel memory when the real packet
size is smaller than the maximum packet size supported by the driver.  This is
always the case when using DVD discs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
11edefd8c8 [PATCH] pktcdvd: remove version string
The version information is not useful for a driver that is maintained in
Linus' kernel tree.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
Phillip Susi
a460ad6226 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Fix overflow for discs with large packets
The pktcdvd driver was using an 8 bit field to store the packet length
obtained from the disc track info.  This causes it to overflow packet length
values of 128KB or more.  I changed the field to 32 bits to fix this.

The pktcdvd driver defaulted to its maximum allowed packet length when it
detected a 0 in the track info field.  I changed this to fail the operation
and refuse to access the media.  This seems more sane than attempting to
access it with a value that almost certainly will not work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
ac89396303 [PATCH] pktcdvd: un-inline some functions
Un-inline two functions in the pktcdvd driver.  This makes the compiled code
172 bytes smaller on my system.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:16 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
8382bf2e72 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Use bd_claim to get exclusive access
Use bd_claim() when opening the cdrom device to prevent user space programs
such as cdrecord, hald and kded from interfering with the burning process.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:48 -08:00
Peter Osterlund
ae7642bb05 [PATCH] packet writing oops fix
There is an old bug in the pkt_count_states() function that causes stack
corruption.  When compiling with gcc 3.x or 2.x it is harmless, but gcc 4
allocates local variables differently, which makes the bug visible.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:11 -08:00
Gabriel A. Devenyi
e4a53cbabc [PATCH] drivers/block/pktcdvd.c: remove write-only variable in pkt_iosched_process_queue()
Found this on Coverty's linux bug database (http://linuxbugsdb.coverity.com).

The function pkt_iosched_process_queue makes a call to bdev_get_queue and
stores the result but never uses it, so it looks like it can be safely
removed.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:55:58 -08:00
Al Viro
dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
610827dee8 [PATCH] pktcdvd: BUG_ON cleanups
Remove some redundant BUG_ON() statements in pktcdvd and move one run-time
check to compile-time.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:31 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
1107d2e035 [PATCH] pktcdvd: use kcalloc and kzalloc
Use kcalloc and kzalloc in pktcdvd.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:30 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
06e7ab53f4 [PATCH] pktcdvd: more accurate I/O accounting
In the /proc statistics, only count writes that upper layers have requested.
Don't count additional writes created inside the packet driver to satisfy the
requirement to only write full packets.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:30 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
a676f8d092 [PATCH] pktcdvd: documentation update
Update the "theory of operation" description.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:30 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
d0272e78ee [PATCH] pktcdvd: fix bogus BUG_ON
In the packet writing driver, if the drive reports a packet size larger than
the driver can handle, bail out safely instead of triggering a BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:30 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
3e1d1d28d9 [PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:

   frozen(process)		Check for frozen process
   freezing(process)		Check if a process is being frozen
   freeze(process)		Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
   thaw_process(process)	Restart process
   frozen_process(process)	Process is frozen now

2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
   kernel sources except sched.h

3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver

4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.

5. Some whitespace cleanup

6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
   cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
   PF_FROZEN).

This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 17:10:13 -07:00